{"id":12005,"date":"2019-12-11T00:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T06:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=12005"},"modified":"2019-12-11T00:21:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T06:21:42","slug":"leaders-clean-your-leadership-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/leaders-clean-your-leadership-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders: Clean Your Leadership House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cHire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.\u201d   -Dee Hock, founding CEO of Visa International<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn\u2019t agree with Dee\u2019s statement more.  The following is an excerpt taken from a Forbes<\/a> Article I wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a former CEO myself with the\nrequirement to cultivate and select amazing leaders, I can tell you that the\nmost successful managers in my own organization were the leaders with\nintegrity, vision, passion, courage, respect, judgment, empathy, and emotional\nintelligence. Each of those qualities are identified by getting to know a\nperson\u2019s character; not by looking at job performance, education level, or years\nof experience. Spend adequate time getting to know your people\u2019s character.\nObserve their interactions with their coworkers. Are they honest in their\ndealings with others? Do they respect, uplift and encourage their coworkers,\neven when it’s a coworker who cannot help them get ahead? Do they take feedback\nand criticism well and do they implement the changes suggested for improvement?\nDo they help others to excel? If the answer to those questions is yes then you\nmight just have identified a fantastic leader for your organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026If CEOs have selected bad leaders in the past, fix it. Clean your leadership house by removing those leaders who don\u2019t have the right qualities and replace them with those who do. As painful as change may be in the moment, nothing is more painful than the damage that gets done by allowing poor leaders to continue leading your company. Then move forward in finding and selecting new leaders that will motivate and inspire your people to greatness!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote that article five years ago and yet every bit of it rings just as true today as it was back then. I’ve watched so many companies succeed or fail based on who they’d hired or promoted into leadership positions. The CEO\/President of any organization is only one person and one person alone can never carry an entire company on their back. So in order for any CEO to succeed they have to be wise about surrounding themselves with an executive team that is trustworthy, acts with integrity, and who can be counted on to represent the CEO’s values. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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